Thursday, April 16, 2009

COMMENTS: Four wins in a row? One series tie and two series wins against NL West opponents? Tied for first place? Yeah, we'll take it.

Tonight brings us the battle of the lefties, with Stults looking to continue his unheralded goodness while Zito attempts to relive some of his glory days at Dodger Stadium, where he's 3-1 with a 2.73 ERA.

Barry Zito was a big baseball player
Back in Oaktown
He could throw that curveball by them
Make their legs buckle down boy
Saw him the other night in the NL West
We were walking off, he was walking out
Came back the next night 'gainst Stults threw a few curves
But all he kept talking about...

As opposed to being solid 1-8 tonight, the lineup is solid 1-9. Anyone else have the Dodgers as an early season pick for one of the best hitting pitching staffs? Kershaw seems quite able to handle the bat, Stults can hit, Wolf can hit, McDonald can hit. Even Kuo can hit.

It's Krukow and Kuiper, who, despite their gross homerdom of the Giants are actually decent announcers, especially after listening to a lot of announcers lately on other feeds. They could lose the dumb stuff like "Grab some pine meat", especially when they are announcing a 90 loss team.

LF, I was referring to the fact that you figured out he jammed his shoulder on the bag, not the flop. I couldn't tell. And on the replay they just showed, I thought it was on the flop. But I'm not watching on HD right now.

well, the only baseball in Alaska that I participate in is in my backyard with my boy. But there is the ABL. A Premier Summer Collegiate Baseball League Containing Players From Major Colleges Throughout The World.

There are games played well into the night and even one that, get this, starts at midnight...

I haven't been to any of the games, but a few major leaguers have made it up here in their college days, including Mark McGuire.

I hate to say this... I have never been to a "live" dodger game... Truely I have only been to LA a few times when I was a kid. We have a trip planned here in a few years. Wife has never been to LA, so it should be a good trip.

I'll make sure and let everyone know when we come down. It will certainly be a HUGE event. Now that I think about it, my dad took me to a game when I was an infant.

I'll try and get to a few games this year up here. Unfortunately the midnight game is played in Fairbanks, about a 6 hour drive from Anchorage, where I live. We'll see what happens. You know.. classes and all.

I just finished this last night. In truth I solely work in CAD, but this was a fun project my prof assigned last week. A do anything you want project. I made it in CAD rendered it in 3DS MAX, a similar (the same basically) program that Pixar uses.

Nic J, it's funny that you say that. As I was watching Zito implode in the sixth, I actually felt a little bad for him as well. A $126M contract must be a lot of pressure, and he looked really sad and pathetic out there.

Of course, I wanted him chased. But I still felt a little bad for him. What does he have, four more years on his contract?